Emily Wheaton is a British-Australian actress who played Sharon 'Shazza' Cox in Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2005. and in the hit show Blue Heelers as Shayleen Burke. In 2005, she appeared in a recurring guest role as school girl Sharon 'Shazza' Cox, on long-running soap opera Neighbours.
In 2011, she had a recurring role as Amber Cushing in season 4 of Network 10’s police procedural series Rush. The same year, she played Jenna in the ABC eight-part miniseries The Slap, based on the best-selling novel by Christos Tsiolkas. In 2014 she voiced the character of Tina in animated adventure series Get Ace.
Her film credits include horror films 6 Plots (2012), and A Night of Horror Volume 1 (2015), and 2016 American fantasy action film Gods of Egypt opposite Chadwick Boseman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, playing a young maid servant.
Wheaton played Brigitta in the Melbourne 2000 stage season of The Sound of Music, alongside Lisa McCune and John Waters.
Filmography
Television
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
| 2004
| Blue Heelers
| Shaelyn Burke
| 2 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2"|2005
| Noah and Saskia
| Renee
| 7 episodes
|-
| Neighbours
| Sharon 'Shazza' Cox
| 7 episodes
|-
| 2010
| Lowdown
| Waitress
| 1 episode
|-
| rowspan="2"|2011
| The Slap
| Jenna
| Miniseries, 2 episodes
|-
| Rush
| Amber Cushing
| 9 episodes
|-
| 2012
| Dangerous Remedy
| Bonnie McGregor
| TV movie
|-
| 2014
| Get Ace
|-
| 2013 || The Shape of Things || Evelyn || No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne ||
|}